Care of the Cancer Patient: a Quick Reference Guide

Content: Front Cover
 Dedication
 Contents
 Foreword
 Preface
 About the authors
 Acknowledgements
 Resource texts
 What standards of treatment and care can the patient reasonably expect?
 Part 1: Communicating with the patient
 1. Basic issues in communication
 2. Listening effectively: 'ALWAYS REACT'
 3. Breaking bad news
 4. The angry patient
 5. Collusion
 6. Confidentiality
 7. Denial
 8. Distancing oneself from the patient
 9. Getting too close to the patient
 10. The patient who refuses to talk
 Part 2: Therapy review
 11. A brief review of how drugs work
 12. Complementary therapies. Part 3: The problem of painSome definitions of words associated with pain
 13. Pain assessment
 14. Treatment options for managing pain
 15. Pain that persists or becomes out of control
 16. Bone pain
 17. Nerve pain
 18. The syringe driver
 Part 4: Common symptoms and their management
 19. Abdominal swelling
 20. Anorexia and nutrition
 21. Bowel obstruction
 22. Breathlessness
 23. Cachexia
 24. Confusion
 25. Constipation
 26. Cough and haemoptysis
 27. Depression and sadness
 28. Diarrhoea
 29. Dysphagia
 30. Fatigue
 31. Fistulae
 32. Fungating wounds
 33. Halitosis
 34. Hiccup. 35. Hypercalcaemia36. Itch
 37. Jaundice
 38. Lymphoedema
 39. Mouth problems
 40. Nausea and vomiting
 41. Nightmares
 42. Opioid-induced sedation
 43. Skin at risk of ulceration
 44. Sleep disorders
 45. Spinal cord compression
 46. Sweating
 47. Tenesmus
 48. Terminal restlessness
 49. Twitching
 Part 5: Practical issues in the care of the patient
 50. Discharge planning
 51. Where can the patient be cared for?
 52. The family as carers
 53. The patient is dying
 54. Speaking to the relatives after a death
 55. Bereavement
 Part 6: Ethical, moral and religious issues. 56. Drinking and artificial hydration (and the principles of withdrawing and withholding treatment)57. Refusing more treatment
 58. Resuscitation
 59. Spiritual and religious issues
 Part 7: Quick practical guides
 Anger and aggression: management
 'BEFRIENDING' the patient
 Clinical audit and clinical effectiveness
 Communicating with deputising staff
 Completing a death certificate
 Dictating letters
 Discharge prescriptions
 End-of-life decisions
 Genograms (family trees)
 How good is that new drug?
 Keeping good-quality clinical records
 Medication chart to aid compliance. Mistakes and learning from themPatients using the Internet as a source of information
 Post-mortem examinations
 Quick neurological examination
 Reading a paper: assessing the quality of what we read
 Recently deceased patients: a checklist
 Reviewing a randomised controlled trial
 Stress and relaxation
 Supporting your colleagues
 Teamwork and team leading
 Working 'in TANDEM' with the patient
 Writing a report for the coroner
 Appendix
 Useful contacts for cancer patients
 Back Cover.